Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-12-03

But if In this world things In general are
out of tune to our fral ear, how much more
[ so to ears angelic and deifc. 1t takes
skilled artist fully to appreciate disagreement
Of sound. Many have no capacity to detect
a defect of musical execution, and, though
/ there were in one bar as many offenses
| against harmony as could crowd in between
| the lower of the bass and the higher oil
the 6oprano, it would give them no discom-
fort, while on the forehead of the e;lucateh
artist beads of perspiratiou would stand out
as result of the narrowing dissonance.
| While an amateur was performing on
piano and had just struck the wrong chord,
John Sebastian Bach. the immortal COM
poser, entered the room, and the amateur
rose in embarrassment, and Bach rushed past
the host, who stepped forward to greet him.
and before the keyboard had stopped vihrat.
| ing, put his adroit hand upon the key, and
| changed the painful inharnony into glorious
cadence Then Bach turned and gave salu
tation to the host who had invited him.
| But the worst of all discords is moral dis
| cord. II society and the world are painfully
F., discordant to imperfect man, what must they
| be to perfect Godi People try to define
what sin is. 1t seems to me that sin is get
ting out Of harmony with God, disagree
ment with His holiness. with His purity, with
| His love- with His commands: our will clash
| ing with His will the finite dashing against
tho infinite, the frall against the puisssnt. the
| created against the Creator. If thousand
musicians, with flute. and cornet a-piston,
/ aud trumpet, and violoncello. and hautboys,
and trombone, and all the wind and s.ringed
Instruments that ever gathered in a Dussel-
dorf jubilee, should resolve TINT they would
| play out of tune AMI put concord to the rack.
and make the place wild with shrieki1g, and
grating, and rasping sounds, they could not
make such a pandemOnlum as that which
RACES in q sinful soul when God listens to the
play Of its thoughts, passions and emotions
| discord, lifelong discord, maddening discord.
| The world pays more for discord than il
does for consolance. High prices have been
| paid for music. One man gave S225 to hear
| the Swedish songstress in New York. and an
| other 1925 to hear her in Boston. and another
| $3.50 to hear her in Providence. Fabulous
prices have been paid for sweet sounds. but
| far more has been paid for diS-Ord. The
| Crimean war cost s1.7CO. 0OO.00). and on
] American cival war over $3.50. 0Oo,O J0, and
| the war debts of professed Christian nations
are about $1,000. 0OJO00. The world pays
| for this red ticket, which admits it to the
saturnalia of broken bones. and death ago
| MES, and destroyed cities, ami plowe1 graves,
and crushed hearts. any amount of money
| Satan asks Discordl Discordl
But / have to tell you that the song
| that the morning stars sang together
| at the LAYING of the worlds corner
stone is to be resumed again. MOsart's
| greatest overture was composed one night
| when he was several times overpOwere with
| sleep, and artists say they can tell the places
! in the music where he was falling asleep and
| the places where he awakened. So the over
| ture of the morning stars spoken Of in my
| text has been asleep, but il will awaken and
| be more grandly rendered by the evening
stars of the worlds existence than by the
| morning stars and the veSp-rs will be
sweeter than the mathis The work of all
| good men and women and of all good
| churches and all reform associations is to
bring the race back to the original harmony
| The rebelliOus heart to be attuned. social life
| TO be attuned. commercial ethics to be at
tuned, internationally to be attuned. hemis-
pheres to be attuned-but by what force
and in what ways
In olden time the chorist rs hal a tuning
fork with two prongS and they would strike
| 1t on the back OF pew or music rack and put
| it to the ear and then start the tune, and all
| the other voices would Join. In modern or
chestra the leader has a complete instrument,
| rightly attuned and he sounds that. and all
the other performers turn the keys of their
instruments to make them correspond !, and
| sound the bow over the string. and listen,
and sound out over again. until all the keys
are screwed to concert pitch. and the dis
cords melt into one great symphony, and the
curtain hoists AMI the baton taps, and audi
ences are raptured with Schumanns "Para-
disc and the PERI or RoSsini's ''Stabat Mater"
or Bach's Magnificent in d, or Councils
redemption
Now, our world can never ba attuned by
an imperfect instrument. Even a Cremona
would not do Heaven has ordained the only
instrument, and il is male out Of the wood Of
the cross, and the voices that accompany it
are imported voices cantatriceS of the first
Christmas night, when heaven serenaded the
earth with Glory to God in the highest and
on earth peace. good will to men," Les. we
start too far off and get lost in generalities,
wit eraff
own hearts and life in harmony with the
eternal Christ. Oh for His almighty spirit
to attune US, to chord our viii with his will.
! to modulate our life with his life and bring
us into unison with all that is pure and self
sacrificing ard heavenly. The strings of our
nature are all broken and twisted. and the
bow is SO slack it cannot evoke anything mel
lifuous The instrument made for heaven to
play on has been roughly twanged and struck
by influences worldly and deInoniac. o,
master hand of Christ, restore this split and
fractured and despoiled and unstrung nature
until it shall wall out for this sin, and then
thrill with divine pardon.
The whole world must also be attunel by
the same power. A few DAYS ago | was in
the Fairbanks weighing scale mandatory
Of Vermont Six hundred hands and they
have never had n strike Complete harmony
between labor and capital. the operatives OF
scores of years in their beautiful homes near
by the mansions OF the manufacturers, WHOSE
invention and Christian behavior made the
great enterprise. So all the world over labor
and capital will be brought into euphony'
You may have heard what is called the ''An-
vii Chorus composed by Verdi, tune
played by hammers, great and small, row
with mighty stroke. and now with heavy
stroke, beating great iron anvil That is
what the world has got to come to-anvil
chorus, yard stick chorus, shuttle chorus
trowel chorus, crowhar chorus, piclSax
chorus. gold mine chorus. rail track chorus.
locomotive chorus. II can he done. and it
will be done. So all social life will be at
tuned by tine GOSPEL harp There Will
he as many classes in society as
now. but the classes will not Re regu-
lated by birth, or wealth. or accident
but by the scale OF virtue and bensvOlence,
and people will be gned to their places
as good. or very good, or most ex-
ce!lent. So also, commercial life will be
atiunei. and there Will be twelve in every
dozen and sixteen ounces in every pound,
and apples at the bottom Of the barrel will be
as sound as those on top and silk goods will
not be cotton, and sellers will not have to
charge honest people more than the right
prlcatecafss others will no. pay, and goods
will come to you corresponding with the
sample by which you purchased them, and
coffee viii not be Chickoried and sugar will